Electric-railway shoe.



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H. ROSENFELD.

ELECTRIC RAILWAY SHOE. APPLICATION IfILED AUG. 19. 1903.

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HENRY ROSENFELD, OF NEW YORK, N.

ELECTRIC-RAILWAY SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,391, dated March 22, 1904. Application filed August 19, 1903. Serial No. 170,104; (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY ROSENFELD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of the Bronx, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Electric-Railway Shoe, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in electric-railway shoes, an object being to provide a shoe with novel means for breaking and removing snow and ice from the circuitrail with which the shoe engages.

I will describe an electric-railway shoe embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an electricrailway shoe embodying my invention, showing the same in connection with a car. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the shoe. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the front portion thereof, and Fig. I is a bottom plan view.

The shoe comprises a plate 1 of suitable metal to form a conductor, and the said plate is provided with hanger-lugs 2. The plate is curved upward at its ends and extended along the under side theref from the front end is a rib 3, all the sides of which are divergent from the front end rearward. The front portion of the rib is sharp, so as to cut into ice or snow on the rail, and the divergent sides will force the snow or ice off the rail to the opposite into the snow or ice to be removed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An electric-railway shoe having a rib on its under side, the sides of said rib being divergent from the front rearward.

2. An electric-railway shoe having a rib on its under side, and a weight-holder on its upper side.

3. An electric-railway shoe having a rib on its under side, the sides of said rib beingdivergent from the front rearward, and a weightholder on the upper side of the shoe.

4. An electric-railway shoe having a rib on its under side, the sides of said rib being divergent from the front rearward, and a weightholding box on the upper side of the shoe.

5. An electric-railway shoe having a rib on its under side, the sides of said rib being divergent, and a weight-holding box on the upper side of the shoe at its forward end.

In testimony whereof I havesigned my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY ROSENFELD. 

